Other Times: April 22, 2014

Tomorrow evening the Girls Minstrel Troupe of Media will give a high class performance in the Armory on East State Street for the benefit of the Media Baseball Team.

Rye whiskies are on sale at the Arcade Hotel at 6th and Edgmont streets in Chester for 75 cents to $1.35 a quart.

75 YEARS AGO

The Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed today to have paid $5,000 to Anna Sage, the “Woman in Red”, for luring John Dillinger into a death trap outside a Chicago theater July 22, 1934.

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The annual conference of pastors held at Crozer Theological Seminary will convene from Monday evening until Wednesday afternoon with the theme, “A Relevant Evangelism”.

50 YEARS AGO

Sun Oil Co.’s first quarter earnings were 31 percent higher this year than for the same period in 1963 stockholders were told Tuesday. Board chaieman J. Howard Pew said net income for the first three months totaled $16,694,000 or $1.10 a common share compared with $12,768,000 or 88 cents in 1963.

Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp.’s industrial division in Eddystone has won a $2.2 million contract to build six spherical valves, the largest ever purchased in the United States, for a new power plant in California.

25 YEARS AGO

Fourteen-year-old Gregory Posey, an eighth grader at Chichester Junior High School who has contended with sickle cell anemia all of his life, won the 29th Delaware County Daily Times Spelling Bee today over 68 other contestants with the word “gradus”, referring to a handbook used to assist in the mastering of a difficult art.

Disaster response units from three states struggled with the problem of rescuing more than 200 casualties in a simulated aircraft crash in the Delaware River in Tinicum today.

10 YEARS AGO

A coalition of fishing enthusiasts, conservationists and state officials want to dismantle the dams that create two waterfalls in a section of Ridley Creek that divides Chester from Nether Providence.

Jennifer Scheer-Ronig is campaigning to have the name of her uncle, Air Force Sgt. Francis Turney Jr. of Sharon Hill, who was killed in an airplane crash during the Vietnam War in 1970, added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington. D.C. She said previous family requests have been denied because he did not die in the line of fire.